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Tony Blair Gets It Right On China. Why Not America?

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

England's former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today that lays out exactly how the West should deal with a resurgent China, and why. Do politicians have to retire from office to speak coherently and sensibly on foreign policy, or has Blair always been so smart? After listening to months of foreign policy pablum from Barrack Obama, John McCain and now Joe Biden (will someone please explain to me how merely having done something for a really long time all of a sudden makes one a genius?). Let's be honest, when it comes to the candidates' policy with China, the best we Americans can hope for at this point is that none of them really mean what they are saying. The odds are certainly pretty good.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).